What if I actually was there, and the noise from the text gave up my hiding spot?

If you’re trying to hide, take a moment to silence your phone, for fuck’s sake.

Sounds gay.

The boycotts must be working if they’re this worried about stopping a boycott. Keep it up!

Since Citizens United already ruled that money is speech, any university challenged by this law should have an airtight 1st amendment case in their defense.

Even after the US goes full dictatorship, there will still be “elections” … where the dictator and his cronies just happen to win every time with 95% of the vote, because they’re so popular.

trying to depress Dem turnout.

I don’t know how you’re getting that from what I’m saying.

Yes, you absolutely should be voting. But you should also be prepared for what comes next.

Just a student of history, that’s all.

A ruling class accustomed to power will pretty much never allow that power to be taken away from them peacefully.

Oh, you can vote, sure. I’m just saying that there will be assassinations and refusals to hand over power.

What you’re describing is a corrupt government. It’s not the norm.

Are we pretending that corruption isn’t the norm?

Apparently, they think highly of their chances in the midterms. Otherwise, they’d be staying around to do as much as they could before getting kicked out.

Since when do cops clean anything?

Do yourself a favor and switch to water instead.

I do think you’re a bit naive about it, though. They won’t let this happen with just a simple vote. They will defend their positions of power with violence.

Making it illegal to *checks notes* stop buying things.

I guess that’s what “freedom” means these days.

I mean, sure, but…

Is it really that surprising that a passenger aboard an ocean liner would have a better experience than a sailor aboard a warship?

Okay, then every taxpayer is a killer, too.

Time to show up in conductive clothing and short those things out.

Their training is to kill.

I was in the Air Force, and our training included more about hand-to-hand non-lethal crowd control than actual killing.

Yep. Time to send a (paper) memo to your boss: “Regrettably, my phone died and I have opted to replace it with a non-smart device. If you want me to continue using a phone to log into work computers, the company will need to provide me one. Thank you for your attention in this matter.”

Yeah, by the time copyright finally expires, it will be impossible to find a copy of it anymore.